How does Axial Shift handle Washington restaurant labor laws?

What Washington restaurants have to track

• Weekly overtime after 40 hours
• A 30-minute meal period for shifts over 5 hours
• A 10-minute paid rest break for every four hours worked
• Strict minor work rules, including school-day limits
• Seattle's Secure Scheduling Ordinance for large food service employers, which requires schedules in advance and pay for late changes

How Axial handles it

• Overtime, meal-break, rest-break and split-shift rules are set for each location, so every store follows its own state and city rules.
• The Daily Guide reminds managers before breaks come due, and upcoming breaks can show on the back-of-house display.
• Employees attest to their breaks, and Axial flags missed or late breaks for a manager to review. Axial doesn't change punches on its own, so your team stays in control of the record.
• Axial calculates Seattle Secure Scheduling premiums for late schedule changes, along with Washington overtime and break rules.
• Axial's labor rules cover the edge cases, not just the basics.
• A break audit report shows compliance and premium-pay exposure by store and employee.
• Minor rules are enforced in scheduling, with each store's school calendar.
• Hours count toward overtime across every store an employee works at, and managers approve punches before payroll.

Schedules are built and published ahead in Axial, Axial calculates the premiums when they change late, and a change log shows who changed each schedule and when.

Related: How does Axial Shift handle labor laws in different states?

This is a general summary, not legal advice. Rules change, and some cities add their own. Your team and counsel set the policy; Axial applies the rules you configure.